April Challenge: Rainbows!

Before I get to the challenge, important announcement: Stampin’ Up! has free shipping now through Friday, April 10th! Shop with my sister and 20% goes to foster kids. You’re welcome. Okay, back to business…

It’s the first Monday of the month, so it’s time for the next challenge. For April, the theme is rainbows! Such a beautiful color spectrum that is so pleasing to the eye. Make it a background, make it a focal point. Color the rainbow with markers or watercolor paints. Put the rainbow together with colored cardstock. Use a stencil and ink it up with rainbow colors. There are so many ways to be creative with this theme. I can’t wait to see the entries!

There were two frequently asked questions in last month’s challenge:

Can I enter if I don’t have a blog? Yes. I created some instructions on what to do HERE.

Where exactly am I supposed to leave the comment? I asked that everyone leave a nice comment on the entry just prior to yours. To do this, click on that person’s entry. You will be taken to their blog, Pinterest, Flickr, Splitcoast, or wherever their photo is posted. Leave your comment there (not on LiveLoveCards).

The last day to submit your entry is Sunday, April 26th, 11:59pm CT. One random winner will be selected from all entries and announced on Monday, April 27th.

The giveaway will be a $25 gift voucher to Simon Says Stamp, one of my favorite stores!

Even though a random winner is selected at the end of the month, the challenge is open indefinitely. Please continue to post to the challenges, and I will periodically highlight future entries in my posts. Continuously seeing everyone’s new work is a win for everyone’s inspiration!

Okay, so here are the official rules:

Your entry must include a rainbow spectrum of color in some way.

You can submit as many entries as you like! However, please submit only one entry per card.

After submitting your entry, leave a comment on the entry just before yours.

Leave more comments on entries, if you’re so inclined. 🙂

To be eligible for a prize, you must be an active member of LiveLoveCards at the time the winner is announced.

If you’re experiencing technical problems, go to the Help Page or select the “Challenges” category in the Forum.

I created a couple of rainbow cards for you. I used the same technique on both backgrounds: distress markers blended with water. I just designed a different card front to lay on top. The first one is a sun and rainbow using the Lawn Fawn Spring Showers Die Set:

Darlene DeVries

Mary Jane

Diana

Lovely card. Have been traveling so I’m just catching up with your posts. Such fun to watch you make this. You are so precise! Have yet to use my MISTI – but you inspire me. Have a great week. Can’t wait to see the challenge entries.

Tammy

Nice I just filmed a rainbow card this afternoon! I live your art Darlene! I entered my card I hope I did it right and I don’t know where I’m supposed to leave a comment now (I think I was the first one)
Bye you all have a nice day

conil

Darlene DeVries

Oh my goodness Darlene, I was squirming when you applied the water to that section of the panel and it got messed up, I can only imagine you, sitting there, trying to think of a way to fix it, you are amazing!!! The details on your gorgeous card are just stunning.
I love this challenge, rainbows are awesome so this is going to be fabulous to create and share our cards. Thank you so much for inspiring us and challenging us to let our imagination fly.

Anita

Here is my card! Thanks for the fun challenge Darlene. I’d never tried making a rainbow card. I actually made another one first but the watercolor crayons from SU! didn’t work very well. Now I know it is not the crayons, it’s my lack of practice, but I can always blame them, hey? It was not too bad but I like this one better. Hope you like it : )
Anita

Anita

Connie

What makes your videos so special is that you are not afraid to show your goof ups and how you fix them as well as all the good stuff you do. I think I’ve learned almost as much from finding out what NOT to do or how to fix what I should NOT have done as what I should be doing in the first place. I liked your rainbow with Distress Markers and water. I used Distress Ink and a stamp with water for my rainbow but I don’t think it was as effective.

melrae1116

I love the bright colors of the balloons the rabbit is holding. Makes the card really pop. This card is for my Mom, just a I love you card. I would like the world to be a rinbow and then everyone would hopefully be happy!